Long Color Poems
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Seductive Responsibilities
I am exhausted by bad government excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid my own responsibility,
well within the bounds of my self-governing authority:
"I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I...
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Categories:
color, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Amistad Mutiny
The Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
color, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Woman: The Flame that Lights the World
In every dawn that breaks anew,
In every dream, and skies of blue,
A woman’s strength, steadfast and true,
Guides the world in all we do.
Through ages past and times untold,
Their stories rise, so brave, so bold,
In quiet...
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Categories:
color, inspiration, literature, meaningful, memorial,
Form:
Narrative
Emo Love
With this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
color, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
color, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Snapshots
Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
color, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable
Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable
Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the government issued Safelink
Tracfone got permanently disabled
and all the data
(including contact...
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Categories:
color, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation, black love, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
color, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Iv
the Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
color, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Burning Logs
Each flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
color, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
color, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
color, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
color, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
color, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Father Time's Interview
Hi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
color, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -
- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
color, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Earthy Empathy
You've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
color, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Feeling Better
Systems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
color, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Red and Green Christians
Let's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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Categories:
color, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1
The young lady's car slowed to a stop ...
As she pulled as far off the highway, (onto the shoulder), as she could
(Allowing for any snow plow that might come along).
She had chosen poorly this time
Believing...
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Categories:
color, angel, appreciation, christmas, snow, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Chapter 108 -- Damian Dj Delilah Mallory Damali Cj: the New Temple and Djs Birthday
Date: January 4 2046
Damali and DJ were active in the
Small house sprucing up for their
Day. "Hey happy birthday partner!"
Damali jostled DJ. In the main house
Now 11 morning time. Damian had
Plans...
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Categories:
color, confidence, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
Point of a Gun
You are a 15 year old girl;
so young and able;
stature small , petite short not tall, they hardly see at the kitchen table;
And at school it's not cool;
you're chosen;
But not for love, just..
Lust;
you see...
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Categories:
color, angst, appreciation, blessing, children, depression, children,
Form:
Ballad
A Snow Queen Tale
Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
color, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Keeping America Safe
A prayer for God to bless Americans,
whether northern or southern,
is also a reminder of traditional political mindfulness,
basic awareness of our economic investments
in global health and security.
No one "keeps" these northern confederations
of uniting states...
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Categories:
color, culture, earth, health, political, race, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 111 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Worries Orchestrations Population Disintegration
Molly sat on the backyard porch
Watching the kids play when Dolly
Emerged from the doorway and
Sat with her. "Hey sis how's it going
Girl! Dolly seemed jovial. Molly
Replied, "I guess it's going...
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Categories:
color, daffodils, family, good morning, home,
Form:
Alliteration